Planting the flag: A strategy for ICT-enabled local public services reform
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Planting the Flag is a Local CIO Council initiative led by Socitm’s Futures group. It sets out how technology can enable public service reform across the whole range of local services and deliver significant savings and better outcomes for people where they live and work. It assumes commitment to the sort of value-driven, cost reducing, organisational change that we advocate.
This version of Planting the Flag is for CIOs, Heads of ICT, ICT specialists, and private sector ICT suppliers to local public services. An executive summary is available for chief executives, elected members, and senior management teams.
Planting the Flag is the result of open and wide consultation across the public, private, and civil society sectors, including central government and the ICT industry. It builds on work done by LG Group, Solace, CIPFA, and others on the future of public services. Most crucially, it offers a local dimension to the recently published national Government ICT Strategy.
Above all, it is a ‘call to arms’. The next phase, Planning the Route, will involve developing detailed action plans with cross-sectoral support. This will be facilitated by Socitm’s regional groups working alongside local partners.